Current Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Sociology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire39
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives38
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters37
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization28
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control27
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA23
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum22
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis21
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers19
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-1919
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus19
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention18
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality16
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)15
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research14
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic13
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome13
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships12
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act12
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology11
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem11
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism10
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns9
Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach9
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations9
The mechanisms of trust formation under different conditions of political identity: An experiment among Taiwanese voters9
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China9
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind9
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science9
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems8
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts8
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?8
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?8
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence8
Class in Iceland7
A value turn in sociology7
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study7
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence7
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment6
Reflections of a Monographs editor6
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?6
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud6
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank6
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests6
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea5
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts5
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology5
Diasporic multiculturalism5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume5
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation5
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts4
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies4
The financialization of non-financial firms: The case of South Korea, 1997–20154
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction4
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives4
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology4
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe4
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon4
Contentious buildings: The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel4
‘. . . You are a Muslim, and our village disapproves of this’: The objections of indigenous minority communities in Israel to women’s employment in the police on grounds of gender, nationality and cri4
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia4
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union3
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity3
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests3
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers3
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond3
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives, and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology3
On the importance of taking risks3
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey3
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana3
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City3
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka3
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany3
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge3
Military social harm: An agenda for research3
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach3
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim3
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences3
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia3
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital3
Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behavior and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates3
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?3
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’3
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology3
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy3
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping2
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context2
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico2
The construction of dual ethnic identity among multi-ethnic adolescents2
Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence2
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe2
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa2
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change2
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction2
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship2
Race, caste and colonialism2
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence: Some problems in Bourdieu’s notion of victim complicity2
Publisher’s Note2
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China2
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives2
Seven years passed2
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review2
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany1
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy1
Privilege and discrimination in identity politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a tool for analyzing social inequality1
Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families1
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts1
Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions1
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil1
Reflections of a journal editor1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege1
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles1
Is religion the ‘opiate of the masses’? Religion and political trust in China1
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism1
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism1
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel1
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan1
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 20201
Youth and the consumption of credit1
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites1
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia1
CORRIGENDUM to “Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state: A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden”1
Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work1
Imagined futures in precarious working conditions: A gender matter?1
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic1
‘We do things that matter’: Humanitarian representations of health and welfare services for forced migrants1
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action1
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel1
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas1
Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India1
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations1
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